Literacy Essentials - Grade 6
Literacy Essentials is designed to intensively, explicitly, and systematically teach vocabulary, comprehension, and basic writing skills.
Literacy Course Syllabus.docxMonday, march 2, 2020
Today students will begin with a warm-up to review last week's text titled, "Technology Lends a Helping Hand." Next, they will begin the third and final text in Unit 5, "Power Off." This is a graphic story told in both words and pictures. They will engage in pre-reading strategies, including building background knowledge on the topic and previewing the text structure and text features.
Homework: Raz-Kids - Choose a new book and listen to it.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Today students will engage in the first reading of "Power Off." They will focus on word meaning by working with a partner to identify unknown words in the text and using strategies (context clues, word parts, dictionary, etc.) to determine their meanings. They will record this information in a three-column chart in their notebooks.
Homework: Raz-Kids - Read the book on your own.
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Students will start the class with a warm-up then read "Power Off" for the second time today with a focus on the skill of the unit, understanding figurative language. Students will once again work with a partner to identify figurative language in the text, determine the type of figurative language, and determine its actual meaning. They will use a different three-column chart to record their responses.
Homework: Raz-Kids - Take the quiz.
Thursday, march 5, 2020
Today students will begin with a writing activity as a warm-up. They will then finish yesterday's activity if needed. Next, they will complete workbook pages 92 and 93.
Homework: Raz-Kids - If you did not score 80% or better on the quiz last night, re-read the book and take the quiz again.
Friday, march 6, 2020
Students will start the class period with a writing activity as a warm-up. Next, they will re-read "Power Off" for the final time. They will take a formative quiz today on the text and also participate in a one-minute timed fluency check. If time remains, students will play a board game on figurative language.